"Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it’s just as fast."
― Mario Batali
Topic(s):
Poetry
More From Mario Batali
- "As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food’s going to taste good. And that – that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it."
- "Although the skills aren’t hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant."
- "As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible."
More In Poetry
- "Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one’s geographic landscape, sometimes out of one’s cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins."― Diane Wakoski
- "Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training."― David Hunt
- "Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it’s the oil of life."― John Betjeman